Volunteer Time Off Program 2022

In 2022, PharPoint announced a new Volunteer Time Off Program (VTO) for our employees in alignment with our vision to improve global health.

We’re grateful to have teammates who are dedicated not only to helping clients bring forth innovative and life-changing new therapies but who are passionate about giving back to their own communities.

Explore some of the ways the PharPoint team has recently volunteered in their community.

Lisa F. and Carli T. with Loaves & Fishes Ministry (Raleigh, NC) 

The organization:

Loaves & Fishes’ mission is to empower under-resourced K-12 youth for life opportunities. For the holiday season, the group puts together the Pride for Parents Christmas Store. Pride for Parents allows families to shop for their gift selections at deeply discounted prices.

The opportunity:

Pride for Parents volunteers helps families find and shop their gift selections and wrap their goods.

Cameron B. with Samaritans Purse Processing Center for Operation Christmas Child (Charlotte, NC)

The organization:

Operation Christmas Child collects shoeboxes— filled with school supplies, toys, and hygiene items— packed by individuals and groups across the nation. Processing Center teams prepare these shoebox gifts for international shipment to church partners, who distribute these gifts to children during local community events.

The opportunity:

Volunteers form teams responsible for inspecting gifts, working with filler items, scanning labels, organizing shoeboxes in designated cartons, and heavy lifting.

Tyler Y. and Chris W. with The Produce Project (Raleigh, NC)

The organization:

The Produce Project is a nonprofit organization that provides large shares of produce to members of the community for $18. Produce not purchased is distributed to those in need.

The opportunity:

Volunteers sort produce, assemble boxes, clean, unload and pack up the delivery trucks.

Exploring Standard CRO Timeline Benchmarks

Preparing to work with a top biometrics contract research organization and wondering how their promised data management, biostatistics, and medical writing timelines match up to the industry average? To help sponsors dig into these details and ensure the timelines they’re receiving are competitive, we’re providing PharPoint’s typical timelines alongside research that calculates industry standard timelines, when available.

Our hope is that this document can help sponsors set realistic expectations, confidently ask the right questions of their vendors, and ultimately, partner with a top biometrics CRO that keeps their study moving: because patients are waiting.

eBook contents include:

PharPoint’s short eBook, Standard Clinical Trial Timelines: A Sponsor’s Guide to Evaluating Biometrics CROs, includes the below information.

• Standard database build timeline
  • The bigger picture: Considering site identification and study start-up
• Standard mid-study database change timeline
• Standard database lock time
  • Six strategies for a faster database lock
• Evaluating database lock to top line results timeline
  • Ensuring a rapid delivery
• Evaluating database lock to delivery of tables, listings, and figures (TLF) timeline
• Standard clinical study report delivery timeline
• About PharPoint Research